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  • Where is the strategy in the National Data Strategy?

    Brian McKenna - Enterprise Applications Editor 21 May 2021
  • Who is the presiding genius behind the National Data Strategy? Who is its architect? What are its goals? And what will it have achieved in five years’ time? That the government has responded to the ...

  • Data is not neutral

    Brian McKenna - Enterprise Applications Editor 06 May 2021
  • This is a guest blogpost by Triveni Gandhi, Senior Data Scientist, Dataiku We like to think of data and numbers as indisputable, but the reality is that every piece of information is a product of ...

  • Post-pandemic economic optimism from two B2B tech CEOs – Goldberg and Barrenechea

    Brian McKenna - Enterprise Applications Editor 20 Apr 2021
  • The technology industry is starting to enjoy a lucky escape. What would have happened had vaccines against Sars-Cov-2 not been invented and deployed? There has been much talk of how technology has ...

  • Imagine if ERP could…

    Brian McKenna - Enterprise Applications Editor 16 Apr 2021
  • This is a guest blogpost by Dmitri Krakovsky, Chief Product Officer, Unit4 The world of enterprise software has changed dramatically in the last five years. The first-generation of ...

  • The National Data Strategy needs doers

    Brian McKenna - Enterprise Applications Editor 26 Mar 2021
  • This is a guest blogpost by Dan Klein, Director, Solution Centre, Zühlke Engineering Albert Einstein told us “you can’t use an old map to explore a new world”. Common sense further dictates that ...

  • Alan Turing honoured with visage on £50 note

    Brian McKenna - Enterprise Applications Editor 25 Mar 2021
  • Alan Turing’s service to his country has been recognised steadily in recent years: the 2013 posthumous royal pardon for the 1952 conviction for homosexuality that destroyed his life; the ...

  • Adam Selipsky returns to AWS as Tableau melds more into Salesforce

    Brian McKenna - Enterprise Applications Editor 24 Mar 2021
  • Adam Selipsky, CEO of data analytics company Tableau, has returned to AWS as its CEO – as Andy Jassy takes Jeff Bezos’ place as CEO of Amazon.com. It’s not quite the Tableau of which Selipsky took ...